Bolton Wanderers Community Trust has teamed up with Cricket for Change to introduce Street20 cricket to Bolton for 11 – 18 year olds. Building from the success of Street20 sessions over the summer holiday a number of new sessions have been announced across Bolton.

Street20 Cricket is a fast moving game, designed to be played in crowded urban environments and using facilities such as five-a-side football pitches, basketball courts and sports halls. Just take 2 bats, 2 sets of plastic stumps, a ball and 4-8 players and you’re ready to go!

Cricket for Change have helped BWCT set up ‘Street20’ programmes in a variety of venues all over Bolton including schools, muga’s, mosques and other community buildings.

Street20 operates on the following five principles:

1. Offering year round programmes to keep the players invovled.
2. Running programmes that are local to where players live.
3. Offering regular competitions every half term and school holiday’s.
4. Finding the next generation of coaches from within the programmes.
5. Crucially, using the trust built up, to help those involved and make good choices about their future and increase positive outcomes.

For further information on Street20 and how to get involved please contact Richard Slater on 07867 459 210 or rslater@bwct.org.uk or click here